Masco v. United Airlines’s Empirical Analysis
574 F.2d 1127 · 1978
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably United States v. Lee Way Motor Freight, Inc. (1979), Bronze Shields, Inc. v. New Jersey Department of Civil Service (1981)
15 federal appellate · 5 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin · Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. Walsh · Cline v. Illinois · Jurinko v. Edwin L. Wiegand Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A discriminatory act which is not made the basis for a timely charge is the legal equivalent of a discriminatory act which occurred before the statute was passed. It may constitute relevant background evidence in a proceeding in which the status of a current practice is at issue, but separately considered, it is merely an unfortunate event in history which has no present legal consequences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Croker v. Boeing Co.
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.